[PATCH RFC]: DEBUG for PCI IO & MEM allocation

From: Prarit Bhargava
Date: Mon Mar 14 2005 - 12:26:47 EST


Colleagues,

Over the past few years I've been heavily involved in two projects that deal with PCI HotPlug. While doing this work, one area of code always seems to require printk's to debug through -- the allocation & freeing of IO & MEM resources.

I've discovered many bugs surrounding Hotplug PCI IO & MEM allocations that would have been much easier to debug had there been printk's existing within the code, including one recently which impacts all of PCI Hotplug and appears to have been around since pre-2.6.9 (a patch to fix this issue has already been reviewed & accepted by Greg Kroah).

As Hotplug continues to mature and more Hotplug drivers are introduced, I suspect that more and more bugs will be introduced in the resource space.

I propose the following patch to add a compile time DEBUG option to kernel/resource.c that would help in analyzing problems in this area. It's a few simple lines of output in __request_resource, __release_resource, __request_region, and __release_region .

Thanks,

P.


===== kernel/resource.c 1.26 vs edited =====
--- 1.26/kernel/resource.c 2005-01-08 00:44:13 -05:00
+++ edited/kernel/resource.c 2005-03-14 17:14:36 -05:00
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <asm/io.h>

+#if 0
+#define DEBUGP printk
+#else
+#define DEBUGP(fmt , a...)
+#endif

struct resource ioport_resource = {
.name = "PCI IO",
@@ -155,6 +160,8 @@
unsigned long end = new->end;
struct resource *tmp, **p;

+ DEBUGP("%s: resource request at 0x%lx-0x%lx\n", __FUNCTION__, new->start, new->end);
+
if (end < start)
return root;
if (start < root->start)
@@ -168,11 +175,13 @@
new->sibling = tmp;
*p = new;
new->parent = root;
+ DEBUGP("%s: resource allocated\n", __FUNCTION__);
return NULL;
}
p = &tmp->sibling;
if (tmp->end < start)
continue;
+ DEBUGP("%s: resource conflicted with 0x%lx-0x%lx\n", __FUNCTION__, tmp->start, tmp->end);
return tmp;
}
}
@@ -181,6 +190,7 @@
{
struct resource *tmp, **p;

+ DEBUGP("%s: resource release for 0x%lx-0x%lx\n", __FUNCTION__, old->start, old->end);
p = &old->parent->child;
for (;;) {
tmp = *p;
@@ -189,10 +199,12 @@
if (tmp == old) {
*p = tmp->sibling;
old->parent = NULL;
+ DEBUGP("%s: resource free'd\n", __FUNCTION__);
return 0;
}
p = &tmp->sibling;
}
+ DEBUGP("%s: resource cannot be released\n", __FUNCTION__);
return -EINVAL;
}

@@ -432,6 +444,7 @@
{
struct resource *res = kmalloc(sizeof(*res), GFP_KERNEL);

+ DEBUGP("%s: requesting region 0x%lx - 0x%lx\n", __FUNCTION__, start, start + n - 1);
if (res) {
memset(res, 0, sizeof(*res));
res->name = name;
@@ -445,8 +458,10 @@
struct resource *conflict;

conflict = __request_resource(parent, res);
- if (!conflict)
+ if (!conflict) {
+ DEBUGP("%s: region assigned\n", __FUNCTION__);
break;
+ }
if (conflict != parent) {
parent = conflict;
if (!(conflict->flags & IORESOURCE_BUSY))
@@ -454,6 +469,8 @@
}

/* Uhhuh, that didn't work out.. */
+ DEBUGP("%s: request for region 0x%lx - 0x%lx failed\n", __FUNCTION__, res->start,
+ res->end);
kfree(res);
res = NULL;
break;
@@ -504,6 +521,7 @@
break;
*p = res->sibling;
write_unlock(&resource_lock);
+ DEBUGP("%s: releasing region 0x%lx - 0x%lx\n", __FUNCTION__, res->start, res->end);
kfree(res);
return;
}
@@ -512,6 +530,7 @@

write_unlock(&resource_lock);

+ DEBUGP("%s: release regions 0x%lx - 0x%lx failed\n", __FUNCTION__, start, end);
printk(KERN_WARNING "Trying to free nonexistent resource <%08lx-%08lx>\n", start, end);
}